Over the past twenty years, Future Islands have travelled a rare arc — from promising newcomers to something closer to a best-kept secret, from cult favourites to a band that has quietly endured. Rather than marking the moment with a traditional “best of,” they now present From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth – an immediate and accessible collection, with many of these songs appearing on streaming services...
Sydney duo Party Dozen return with new single and music video, ‘Special Unit’. Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered, shot by and starring the band themselves, the track packs a lot into its 2 mins and 39 seconds. Less is more. More volume. More energy. In a three week period that will see Party Dozen play Sydney Opera House (for Vivid Festival) this Monday 25th May, and Red Rocks (as...
Out digitally today, Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story is a freshly reimagined take on Car Seat Headrest’s beloved breakout Teens of Denial, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. A physical edition will follow on October 16th. On the original album, Toledo often used the name “Joe” as a pseudonym – a sly homage to Daniel Johnston. Revisiting Teens in the run-up to its 10th birthday, he felt called to give Joe a unique backstory and began tweaking the album...
Overmono announce their hotly-anticipated second album Pure Devotion, arriving Friday, 7 August. Sharing a name with the beloved series of live events they launched in 2024, Pure Devotion is Overmono’s most ambitious project to date. It’s the sound of beautiful imperfections, machine malfunctions and happy accidents, harnessed by the unflinching confidence that Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – have gained through years at the vanguard of underground electronic music, and subsequent breakthrough as one...
This Is Lorelei, the project of the prolific New York artist Nate Amos, has signed to Matador Records. Alongside the signing, Amos announces a UK autumn tour culminating in a London show at Electric Brixton on November 26, as well as North American dates with Bleachers, @ and Colin Miller, plus appearances at Kilby Block Party, Newport Folk and Just Like Heaven Festivals. This Is Lorelei recently released the Super Deluxe version of Box For Buddy, Box...
London’s caroline share a new remix of their song ‘Beautiful ending’ by Giant Claw. The song is originally from their critically-acclaimed sophomore album caroline 2. caroline’s founding members Casper Hughes, Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley began playing together in 2017. As the band’s sound kept expanding, so too did their line-up, eventually becoming an eight-piece completed by Freddy Wordsworth, Magdalena McLean, Oliver Hamilton, Hugh Aynsley and Alex McKenzie. By the time the cast settled towards the end of 2019, the songs too were expansive...
Continuing the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Complete B-Sides: 1988-97 by Pixies is being reissued 25 years after its initial release, out June 26, 2026. Having been remastered, the compilation of the band’s timeless “other” tracks will be available on double black vinyl, double clear vinyl, and double CD; also marking the first time the release has been officially pressed on vinyl. Originally released on CD in 2001, while the band were...
Swedish artist Murex releases her debut single ‘Massacre’ via Young. Self-produced in Murex’s Stockholm studio, ‘Massacre’ is a piece of ethereal, amorphous, avant-pop that thrashes and glimmers in equal measures. Simultaneously brutal and beautiful, the song depicts hunger and the act of dragging oneself into destruction. Watch the accompanying video here. Artists making pop music today are expected to calcify as one easily consumable version of themselves, or capitulate wildly...
Scritti Politti’s modern masterpiece Cupid & Psyche 85 is to be celebrated with a new edition that brings a much-prized version of the record together & a host of handpicked cuts from the group’s archive. Released on 10 July, the Deluxe Edition will feature a remastered version the original album, plus a series of extra tracks and remixes, and will be available on double vinyl, CD and digitally. For the first time ever, the...
Aldous Harding releases her new album Train On The Island, out today. Ahead of the album Harding shared a third and final single this week with album closer ‘Coats’, following early singles ‘Venus In The Zinnia’ and ‘One Stop’. In addition, to celebrate Train On The Island, Harding adds southern hemisphere dates to her growing headline tour where she announced her live return to Australia this November, with four exclusive...
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) release their debut EP Are we friends yet?, a six-track release that captures the band’s first two years in motion. Featuring recent singles ‘Virgin Soil’ and ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EP arrives digitally and on 12” vinyl as a snapshot of a band defining themselves in real time. The project arrives alongside a brand new video directed by South London artist, Ché Deedigan, capturing it’s energy: a band in...
Māori & Samoan force Jamaica Moana brings her fierce edge to the social phenomenon that is Songs With Strings, collaborating with the quartet on her dance floor heater ‘TUGGAWAR’ taken from her recent debut EP, BUD & DENI. The now viral anthem – co-signed by SZA, Doja Cat and Sudan Archives – takes on a more dynamic edge, juxtaposing the hard hitting lyrics with the intricacies of the strings is now available digitally. The session was filmed in LA during her recent trip for SXSW, where...
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share a new video for ‘In the Blink of an Eye’. The video, something of a Japanese seafaring odyssey, was directed by Botsu_NGS (of Japanese experimental hip hop outfit Dos Monos) and features Hiroki Kaniya. As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling...
In April, Zoh Amba announced their Matador debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart. Today, Amba shares the album’s pensive and darkly hypnotic title track, a song about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Grace Bader Conrad, featuring Amba and album musicians Jim White (drums) and Kevin Hyland (electric guitar),...
Singer, producer and songwriter Tommy Barlow is a distinctive new voice in UK music. While he playfully describes his sound as “farm grunge”, his work feels unmistakably contemporary – a kind of digital, half-lit world-building coalescing with the traditional folk music he grew up with in a musical family just outside Cambridge. Now signed to Young – home to the likes of Sampha, The xx, Isaiah Hull, Robyn, John Maus, Mechatok and John Glacier –...
GB, Gustav Berntsen, is an artist from Copenhagen who crafts texture-heavy, adventurous guitar music cut with a pop sensibility. Today, GB announces his second album, Herzsprung, out 21 August, and also shares the album’s first single ‘Adrenaline’, sending light from a world of zigzagging guitar, bubbly fretless bass, and rolling percussion. Herzsprung follows GB’s debut record, the collage-based cult hit Gusse Music, which was released on storied CPH label Posh Isolation in 2024 –...
